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Hidden figures : the true story of four Black women and the space race
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The Resource Hidden figures : the true story of four Black women and the space race
Label
Hidden figures : the true story of four Black women and the space race
Title remainder
the true story of four Black women and the space race
Statement of responsibility
by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
Title variation
True story of four Black women and the space race
Creator
  • Shetterly, Margot Lee
Contributor
  • Freeman, Laura, (Illustrator)
  • Weston Woods Studios
  • Conkling, Winifred
  • Shetterly, Margot Lee
  • Spencer, Octavia
Author
  • Shetterly, Margot Lee
  • Conkling, Winifred
Illustrator
  • Freeman, Laura, (Illustrator)
Narrator
  • Spencer, Octavia
Publisher
  • Weston Woods Studios
Subject
  • African American women
  • African American women
  • African American women -- Biography | Juvenile literature
  • African Americans -- Biography
  • Audiobooks
  • Biographies
  • Biographies
  • Children's audiobooks
  • Children's audiobooks
  • African American mathematicians
  • Employees
  • Jackson, Mary, 1921-2005 -- Juvenile literature
  • Johnson, Katherine G
  • Johnson, Katherine G. -- Juvenile literature
  • Juvenile works
  • Picture books
  • Picture books
  • Picture books for children
  • Space race
  • Space race
  • Space race -- Juvenile literature
  • United States
  • United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Juvenile literature
  • United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Juvenile literature
  • Vaughan, Dorothy, 1910-2008 -- Juvenile literature
  • Women -- Biography
  • Women mathematicians
  • Women mathematicians
  • Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography | Juvenile literature
  • Darden, Christine M. -- Juvenile literature
  • African American mathematicians
  • African American mathematicians -- Biography | Juvenile literature
Genre
  • Juvenile literature
  • Juvenile works
  • Biography
  • Children's audiobooks
  • Biographies
  • Picture books
  • Picture books for children
  • Audiobooks
Language
eng
Summary
  • Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918- ), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942- )
  • Katherine, Dorothy, Mary, and Christine were all good at math. Really good. And it was their understanding of numbers that helped them do what seemed impossible. They were women, and they were African-American, and they lived during a time when being black and a woman limited what they could do. But Katherine, Dorothy, Mary, and Christine were hardworking and persistent and, most important, smart. And that's why NASA hired them to do the math that would one day send the United States into space for the very first time. New York Times bestselling author Margot Lee Shetterly and illustrator Laura Freeman bring to life the inspiring story of the struggles of these four "hidden figures" and what they overcame to succeed. The math work they did would change not only their own lives, but the face of air and space travel forever. -- From dust jacket
Member of
  • Weston Woods read-along CD
Has edition
  • Hidden Figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
Accompanying matter
libretto or text
Awards note
Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book, 2019
Cataloging source
BIB
Credits note
Music by Michael Bacon
Dewey number
  • 510.92/520973
  • B
Form of composition
not applicable
Format of music
not applicable
Intended audience
  • Ages 4-8
  • 980L
Intended audience source
Lexile
Interest level
LG
Literary text for sound recordings
biography
Music parts
not applicable
PerformerNote
Narrated by Octavia Spencer and Margot Lee Shetterly
Reading level
5.8
Series statement
Weston Woods read-along CD
Study program name
Accelerated Reader
Target audience
  • preschool
  • juvenile
Transposition and arrangement
not applicable

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  • Hidden figures : the true story of four Black women and the space race, by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
  • Hidden figures : the true story of four Black women and the space race, by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling ; illustrated by Laura Freeman
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